Author : c d poe

An artist, poet and geek, c d poe was auspiciously born on the night of a full moon, just after midnight, on All Hallow's Eve. As such, he has a penchant for the dark, the macabre, the strange and weird. His artwork is primarily contemporary fantasy pin-up. His subjects are influenced by mythology, folk lore, and faerie tales. He is inspired by pin-up artists such as Gil Elvgren, Olivia, Earl Moran, and Luis Royo. Fantasy artists' works he enjoys perusing include Brom, and Frank Frazetta. Additional influences include Joseph Michael Linsner, Sam Keith, and Tim Bradstreet. Writers he draws significant dark energies from include Clive Barker, Stephen King, Poppy Z. Brite, and Neil Gaiman.

I’ve created a category of posts called “Drawing Stuff” which I will post links to online tutorials, vids, websites, and other items which have inspired or taught me to do what I do. Pursuing one’s art is a continuous path of education, growing, and developing which never ends. I’ve been asked at shows where I’ve learned to do what it …

Digital Painting 101 (1 of 5) is the first in a series of five videos that has some really great information. Brought to you from Matt Kohr, a concept artist in the gaming industry, who runs a very thorough digital art website at www.ctrlpaint.com. Cheers!

I found a plug-in which I like a LOT better than the prior one I was using. It has many more customizable features, and allows me to play around with different layouts at the click of a button. Plus, I can link the image directly from the gallery to my online storefront. That way, if someone is viewing artwork on …

Greetings and welcome to the new and improved (maybe) cdpoe.com! A new theme was selected for me to work with. Not sure it’s what I’ll stick with, but I like it so far. It’s a little clunky looking out of the box, but perhaps some tweaks with the code will rectify that. I just don’t want to mess with it …